A SNUFFBOX MADE FROM RECOVERED ROYAL GEORGE WRECK TIMBER
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A SNUFFBOX MADE FROM RECOVERED ROYAL GEORGE WRECK TIMBER

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A SNUFFBOX MADE FROM RECOVERED ROYAL GEORGE WRECK TIMBER
the hinged lid with applied metal plaque engraved PART OF THE/ROYAL GEORGE/SUNK/on the 29th. Aug/1782 -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

Capsized during routine maintenance work at anchor in Spithead in 1782, over 900 lives were lost, including Admiral Kempenfelt and many visiting civilians and children. Presenting a major obstacle to shipping, attempts to raise her were abandoned and she was broken up in situ over a period of about sixty years, providing the test-bed for modern enclosed diving and underwater explosives in the process. Much of her timber was used for fund-raising objects of which the lot offered is an attractive example.

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